Soldering apparatus.



D. GENESE.

SOLDERING APPARATUS.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 15, 1907. nunwnn MAB. ze, 190s.

Patented Nov.3, 1908.

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SOLDERING APPARATUS. APPLIOATION FILED MAY 15, 1907. BENI-:wrm mnjze, 190s.

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DAVID GENESE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SOLDERING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application led May 15, 1907, Serial No. 373,806. Renewed March 26, 1908. Serial No. 423,428.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID GENESE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city and State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Soldering Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to what I shall for convenience terni a soldering apparatus. The apparatus may be used with advantage in many different connections.

In Letters Patent No. 834,719, Granted to me October 30, 1906, and entitled ?IIermetic sealing means, I show a bottle equipped at its neck with a metallic seat on which rests a seal, and the present apparatus is of particular utility when employed for soldering such seal to said seat. The apparatus is sirnple in construction and rapid in operation.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification I show in detail one form of embodiment of the invention which, to enable those skilled in the art to practice the said invention, will be fully set forth in the following description, while the novelty of the invention will be included in the claims succeeding said description.

Referring to said drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of said apparatus with a shield or guard forming part of the same detached. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional detail of the upper portion of the apparatus and illustrating the mode of operation thereof. Fig. 3 is a somewhat similar view of certain of the parts shown in said Fig. 2 and with the soldering and holding devices elevated from the bottle. Fig. 4 is a detail view in section of the seal.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several figures.

The different parts of the apparatus may be supported upon any desirable framework; for this purpose I have shown a standard or upright as 2 which may consist of a casting and which rises from an eXtension of the bed or base plate 3. Ihe bottle 4L is adapted to be supported by this bed or base plate 3, and the latter is furnished with a fork as 5 extending from the body portion 6 which may consist of a plate suitably adjustably connected with the bed 3. The butt or base portion of the bottle is adapted to be received between the branches of the fork 5, while the neck portion of the bottle may be yieldingly held between the branches of an upper fork as 7 formed at the outer end of a rod as S extending adjustably through the upper portion of the standard 2. rI`he two forks 5 and 7 hold the bottle in a steady condition during the application of the seal thereto and also center it with respect to the soldering mechanism.

The soldering device is designated in a general way by 9 and as shown it consists of an elongated tube extending vertically through the split sleeves or collars 10 at the outer ends of the parallel overhanging arms 11 projecting from the standard 2. In the present case the soldering device 9 has an endwise and also a rotative movement. The endwise or longitudinal movementof the soldering device is to move the same toward and from the work, while the rotative or turning motion is utilized to effect the proper distribution of the solder. The material of which the soldering device is composed may be of any suitable character. For this purpose I generally employ a body of cast iron and a tip as 12 fitted rigidly to said body. The tip 12 constitutes the effective portion of the soldering device and, as it is subjected to heat sufficient to effect the fusing of the solder, it may be made of copper. The material of which the different parts is composed, however, is not part of the invention which resides in certain mechanical relations.

To reciprocate the soldering device 9 I have shown a skeleton-like rock arm 13 suitably fastened at its rear end to the rockshaft 14e supported by bearings upon the rear upper portion of the standard 2, said rock-arm having attached thereto a handle or lever as 15 by whichl the same may be turned. The sides of the arm straddle the standard and near their' outer ends on the inner faces thereof they are furnished with pins or projections as 16 freely fitting the peripheral channel 17 between the ends of the soldering device 9. By reason of this free fitting of the pins 16 in the channel or groove 17 I provide for a certain amount of relative motion between the soldering device 9 and the arm 13, so as to provide for the proper adjustment of the soldering device. The soldering device, as will be understood, has an up and down movement. When up, the arm or lever 15 occupies theposition shown in Fig. 1, the weight of said arm or lever 15 being sufiicient to hold the soldering device elevated. By swinging the arm 15 forward the soldering device 9 can be lowered into contact with the seal seat and marginal portion of the seal thereon. To prevent the soldering device from forcibly striking the said seat or top of the bottle I provide a stop as 18 which receives the shock of the descending soldering device. This stop consists preferably of a screw tapped vertically through the lower arm 11 and the head of which is engageable by the arm 13 to obtain the result named. As the stop 18 is adjustable I compensate for variations in height of the bottles, seats, and seals.

T prefer to provide a holding device for the seal 19 which is to be applied to the bottle so that the seal cannot move relatively to the bottle during the soldering operation. The seal in the present case is of concavoconvex construction with a flat marginal portion, the convexed side being up and said flat marginal portion resting on the seat as fully disclosed in the patent to which l have referred. The holding device is denoted in a general way by 20, it being made up of an elongated stem provided with a base or foot portion 21, generally made of some suitable heat non-conducting material. The working portion of the base or foot 21 is convexed to fit the concaved surface of the seal 19. The stem or shank portion of the h'olding device 2O extends entirely through the tubular body of the soldering device 9 and at its upper end is shown as provided with an adjustable weight as 22 which also serves as a stop. The base portion 21 during the soldering operation is adapted to lit or be housed in the soldering tip 12, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

Then the soldering device 9 is up, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the base portion 21 of the holding device is located below the soldering tip 12, and the weight or collar 22 rests against the top of the soldering device. This is the normal relation, and, when the soldering device is in such position, I prefer to subject the tip 12 to the action of a suitable heater such as a gas burner as 23, the flame issuing from which is projected against the said tip 12. The burner 23 can be supplied with the necessary fluid by a pipe as 211. To protect the operator from the heat developed by the flame l may attach to the forward portion of the lower arm 11 a depending guard 25 which partially surrounds the llame for the purpose indicated.

In operation, l take a bottle to the neck of which there has been connected a seal seat of metal, such a seat being designated by 26, and place upon the same a seal as 19 to which I have previously referred. Prior to putting the seal on its seat I apply to the under side of the flattened marginal portion of the seal a body of solder which is ordinarily in ring or annular form, such solder' being denoted by 27. The bottle is then mounted upon the base or bed 3 with the lower portion. gripped by the fork 5 and the neck embraced by the fork 7 At this time the several parts are in their normal positions as shown for example in Fig. 1. The handle of the lever or arm 15 is then grasped by the operator and the lever is swung forward to the position shown in Fig. 2. This operation lowers the soldering device 9 and permits the descent of the holding` device 20, the working portion of the latter being in advance of the working portion of the soldering device. The result, therefore, is that, before the soldering device has completed its downward movement, the base portion 21 of the holding device will engage the seal or disk 19 to hold the same. The soldering device, as will be clear, moves down after the holding device has engaged the bottle or until the lower edge of its tip 12 strikes the top of the bottle. The hot tip, therefore, fuses the ring 27 of solder.

To properly distribute the solder l turn the soldering device 9, and, to facilitate suoli action, the latter may be provided near its upper end with a hand-wheel as 28, the spokes or arms of which can be grasped by the attendant. The base portion 21 by its downward pressure on the seal not only holds the same against relative movement with respect to the bottle, but also maintains the same suficiently lfirmly against its seat to prevent molten solder entering the bottle between the seal and seat. The under edge of the tip 12 has a rabbet 29 into which the solder when fused can How. This` prevents scattering of the solder.

The working portion 21 of the seal-holding device 20 is preferably made of some heat non-conducting material; in fact the whole of said part 2O may be formed of such material. By virtue of this feature, when the said holding device is in its operative relation, the tip 21 thereof will prevent possible overheating of the tin seal or disk at the center thereof which, if highly heated by the soldering tip 12, might be fused before the soldering operation had been con-- eluded. f

What I claim is: f

1. In an apparatus of the class described, a bed to support a bottle, a standard rising from said bed, said standard having overhanging arms, a tubular rotary endwise movable soldering device connected with said arms for up and down movement, a seal-holding device extending entirely through the soldering device and provided with a weight to engagev the upper end of the soldering device, the latter having a peripheral channel, a rock shaft supported by said standard, an arm comprising two sides straddling said standard and fixed to said shaft, the sides 'having pins at a point beyond said shaft, fitting in said channel, and a hand-lever connected with the shaft and extending substantially upwardly therefrom.

2. In an apparatus of the class described, a bed to support a bottle, a standard rising from said bed, said standard having overhanging arms, a tubular rotary endwise movable .soldering device connected with said arms for up and down movement, a seal-holding device extending entirely through the soldering device and provided with a weight to engage the upper end of the soldering device, the latter having a peripheral channel, a rock shaft supported by said standard, an arm comprising two sides straddling said standard and fixed to said shaft, the sides having pins at a point beyond said shaft, fitting in said channel, a hand-lever connected with the shaft and extending substantially upwardly therefrom, a burner supported by the standard for directing a iiame against said soldering device, and a guard for the ame, connected with one of said overhanging arms.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, a bed to support a bottle, a standard rising from said bed, said standard having overhanging arms, a tubular rotary endwise movable soldering device connected with said arms for up and down movement, a seal-holding device extending entirely through the soldering device and provided with a weight to engage the upper end of the soldering device, the latter having a peripheral channel, a rock shaft supported by said standard, an arm comprising two sides straddling said standard and fixed to said shaft, the sides having pins at a point beyond said shaft, fitting in said channel, a handelever connected with the shaft and extending substantially upwardly therefrom, a burner supported by the standard for directing a flame against said soldering device, a guard for the flame, connected with one of said overhanging arms, and a limit-stop engageable by the arm that is connected to said rock shaft, said limit-stop consisting of a set-screw tapped into one of said overhanging arms.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID GENESE. Witnesses:

HARRY M. LINDSAY, GRO. CARRY LINDSAY. 

